An electric scooter suddenly exploded inside a home in Beijing while charging.<br /><br />CCTV video, which captured the July 29 incident at a living room in a flat, shows the electric scooter making a loud bang - startling a dog sleeping beside it - before emitting smoke and then catching alight. denly exploding when it is charging in a living room.<br /><br />A man quickly gets up from the sofa and unplugs it. <br /><br />But as the living room is enveloped in thick smoke, the man and his daughter and dog flee.<br /><br />A ball of fire bursts out and engulfs the whole apartment.<br /><br />Security and the property management staff were able to extinguish the fire quickly and no one was injured.<br /><br />The owner of the flat, named only as Zhao in local reports, said she had only bought the electric scooter a week before and damages amount to £2,200.<br /><br />The brand of scooter was not known.
